Two people is many people. The general trend I see is that Rust is exploding in adoption.

The last I checked various stats (GitHub Language stats, TIOBE, etc.), Rust wasn't even in the top 10. I'm sure its adoption is increasing. However, other languages like Go seem to be doing much better. Neither will replace C++ or C anytime soon.

C/C++ will be replaced incrementally and it’s already happening. Cloudflare recently replaced nginx with their own alternative written in Rust for example.

That's nice, but a couple of Rust rewrites are not proof of a general trend.

I've been working with C for over 30 years, both professionally and a hobbyist. I have experimented with Rust but not done anything professionally with it. My gut feel is Rust is too syntactically and conceptually complex to be a practical C replacement. C++ is also has language complexity issues, however it can be adopted piecemeal and applied to most existing C code.

> My gut feel is Rust is too syntactically and conceptually complex to be a practical C replacement.

That would depend on what you use C for. But I sure can imagine people complain that Rust gets in the way of their prototyping while their C code is filled with UB and friends.

> That's nice, but a couple of Rust rewrites are not proof of a general trend.

It’s not just a couple. We’ve seen virtually all JS tooling migrate to Rust, and there is many more things but I can’t remember by name.

It is, but it is still tiny compared to C/C++. And many people also do not like it.

There are two categories of people who don’t like Rust:

1. C/C++ developers who are used to C/C++ and don’t want to learn Rust.

2. Go developers who claim Rust is too difficult and unreadable.

Which one is you?

I think the "don't want to learn" is a very poor argument. I learn stuff every day, but I want want to decide myself what I learn to solve my problems, not because Rust folks think everybody has to learn Rust now. I learned a bit of Rust out of curiosity, but not so much I could do a lot with it. I do not want to learn more, because I think the language has severe flaws and and much less suitable than C for my use cases.

I know a guy who used to love Rust and his cannot stand it. The hype wore off in his case.

Does he prefer fighting libtool, make, cmake, configure, automake, autoconf and autoreconf just to add a couple libraries into his project? When I tried to use C, I wrote 10 lines of code and spent hours trying to make all that shit work. It makes me laugh when people say Rust is complicated.

It really is not that complicated. You just use -llibrary when linking and it links.

Oh I never realized I was supposed to install -dev packages, I thought I had to compile myself.

Whether you need -dev packages (for headers) depends on your operating system. I run Gentoo. All headers are always on the system. Other distributions ship the headers separately in -dev packages to save space and you need to install them. You likely can install all -dev packages for everything on your system so you do not need to get the individual ones.

Autocorrect seems to have made a typo worse here. It was supposed to be now, not his.